Lymm Quarry: Anisian, United Kingdom
collected by J. Robson, J. Hawkshaw 1841
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Reptilia
- Chirotheriidae
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King et al. 2005 |
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| BMNH 21831 [Natural History Museum, London, UK] |
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King et al. 2005 |
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| MANCH LL9957; slab contains both C. barthii ("Beasley's A1") and C. storetonense ("Beasley's A2") specimens [Manchester Museum, UK] |
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| "Cheirotherium" |
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Beasley 1904 |
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| "Lymm form" "A 2" |
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| Country: | United Kingdom |
State/province: | England |
County: | Cheshire |
| Coordinates: |
53.4° North, 2.4° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 30.6° North, 19.5° East (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Altitude: | 153 meters |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
| Period: | Triassic |
Epoch: | Middle Triassic |
| Stage: | Anisian |
10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Anisian |
| Age range of interval: | 246.7 - 241.464 m.y. ago |
| Geological group: | Mercia Mudstone |
Formation: | Tarporley Siltstone |
Member: | Lower |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
| Stratigraphy comments: "New Red Sandstone"; tracks "on nearly all the beds of sandstones". Layers are the "Keuper Waterstones" |
| Primary lithology: | gray,red sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Associated major elements: | all |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collectors: | J. Robson, J. Hawkshaw |
Collection dates: | 1841 |
| Also known as: | Lymn |
| Database number: | 52505 |
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, A. Dunhill |
Enterer: | M. Carrano, B. Allen |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano |
Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-08-09 13:54:40 |
Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public |
Released: | 2005-08-09 13:54:40 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
| 55585. | | J. Hawkshaw. 1843. Notice of fossil footsteps in the New Red Sandstone quarry at Lymm, in Cheshire. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 12:56-57 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 53921 | | H. C. Beasley. 1904. Report on footprints from the Trias—Part I. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 73:219-230 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 63086 | | H. Girard. 1846. Über die Fährten vorweltlicher Thiere im Sandstein, insbesondere von Chirotherium [On the tracks of prehistoric animals in sandstone, especially Chirotherium]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 1846:1-22 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 57076 | | R. Harkness. 1850. On the position of the impressions of footsteps in the Bunter Sandstone of Dumfries-shire. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 2 6(33):203-208 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 67305 | | M. J. King, W. A. S. Sarjeant, D. B. Thompson and G. Tresise. 2005. A Revised Systematic Ichnotaxonomy and Review of the Vertebrate Footprint Ichnofamily Chirotheriidae from the British Triassic. Ichnos 12(4):241-299 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen] |
| 82858 | | W. A. S. Sarjeant. 1974. A history and bibliography of the study of fossil vertebrate footprints in the British Isles. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 16:265-378 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 70883 | | G. Tresise. 1993. Triassic footprints from Lymm quarry, Cheshire in the collections of Warrington Museum. Archives of Natural History 20(3):307-332 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 68227 | | T. C. Winkler. 1886. Histoire de l’Ichnologie. Étude Ichnologique sur les Empreintes de Pas d’Animaux Fossiles, Suivie de la Description des Plaques à Impressions d’Animaux qui se Trouvent au Musée Teyler [History of Ichnology. Ichnological Study of Fossil Animal Footprints, Followed by the Description of Slabs with Animal Impressions found in Teyler’s Museum] iv-200 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |